TODO

   1 $Id: TODO,v 1.8 1999/11/21 02:24:45 tiniou Exp $
   2
   3 Need to verify:
   4 ---------------
   5
   6 1.      Verify that dump works with kerberos authentification (this
   7         was ported from *BSD and was not tested - in fact, this
   8         wasn't even compiled in!). Need success reports for this.
   9
  10 Urgent items (for the next stable version):
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  12
  13 All others:
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  15
  16 1.      Make dump able to backup several directories and/or files in one
  17         invocation, like the SunOS version.
  18
  19 2.      More documentation? Examples, crontab?
  20
  21 3.      Explore and correct dump problems on active filesystems
  22         (lseek/read negative count).
  23
  24 4.      Reimplement the ext2 specific code in a "backend" and
  25         make the dump code more generic. This would allow creation
  26         of other backends for other filesystems. Implementing a
  27         (v)fat backend should be quite easy, as for BSD ffs (we
  28         already have the code for this). The BSD code in traverse.c
  29         (all those #ifdef _BSD) should go into the ffs backend.
  30
  31 5.      Implement a DEBUG option which doesn't fork on each tape, making
  32         it able to debug dump with gdb.
  33
  34 6.      Add a compression mode using zlib on each file (see
  35         http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib).
  36
  37 7.      Add some support in dump and restore for numbering in sequence
  38         the output files (when dumping to a file). Something like -N <prefix>
  39         which creates (or reads) <prefix>-1, <prefix>-2 etc...
  40
  41 8.      Make a bootable dump tape? I don't know if it is possible...
  42